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TOTD #91: Retrieve JSON libraries using Maven dependency: json-lib

Posted by arungupta on August 7, 2009 at 5:25 AM PDT



So you need to include JSON
libraries in your Maven project. The only option that seems to be
currently available is using href="http://json-lib.sourceforge.net/">json-lib
with the following dependencies:


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<dependency>

           
<groupId>net.sf.json-lib</groupId>

           
<artifactId>json-lib</artifactId>

           
<version>2.3</version>

           
<classifier>jdk15</classifier>

       
</dependency>



The APIs are based upon the original work done at href="http://www.json.org/java">json.org/java.



If you are using NetBeans
for adding the Maven dependency then it nicely shows the different
versions for the artifact as shown below:



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The usage
guide and href="http://json-lib.sourceforge.net/snippets.html">samples
at json-lib have lots of documentation to get you started. Don't forget
the package
names are changed so "org.json.JSONObject"
is "net.sf.json.JSONObject" and similarly other classes.



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